The new volume “Populism and World Politics: Exploring Inter- and Transnational Dimensions”, edited by Frank A. Stengel, David B. MacDonald and Dirk Nabers has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan.This volume is the first to analyze populism’s international dimension: its impact on, and interaction with, foreign policy and international politics. The contributions to this volume engage conceptual theoretical issues and overarching questions such as the still under-specified concept of populism or the importance of leadership and the mass media for populism’s global rise. They zoom in on populism’s effect on both different countries’ foreign policies and core international concerns, including the future of the liberal world order and the chances for international conflict and cooperation more generally.

The volume includes chapters by:

Jan Zeemann on the possibility of an emancipatory global populist project

María Esperanza Casullo on the importance of leadership for populist movements

Precious Chatterje-Doody and Rhys Crilley on global media and populism

Ocean Atlas

Project description

The Ocean Atlas project is conducted by the Cluster of Excellence ’The Future Ocean’ in cooperation with the Heinrich-Böll Foundation Schleswig-Holstein/Kiel and the Heinrich-Böll Federal Foundation/Berlin.

The project aims at promoting the educational work related to ocean affairs in Schleswig-Holstein and beyond. Based on the successful atlases (e.g. Bodenatlas, Kohleatlas) published by the Heinrich-Böll Federal Foundation jointly with Le monde diplomatique, BUND and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) an ocean atlas is produced that should provide impulses for a political and social discussion on the growing threats to the ocean, our life-supporting system. The atlas will comprise 26 double pages, each of which will cover a special thematic field. The work pursues a high visual but low-threshold approach of knowledge transfer. Based on interviews with scientific experts the texts are created by a professional writer.

The Atlas is to appear in German and English language in June 2017 and will be distributed by the Heinrich-Böll Foundation in Germany as well as in its foreign representations.

Project financing

The project is financed by the Cluster of Excellence ’The Future Ocean’ and the Heinrich-Böll Federal Foundation.